.Mr. Biggar (M.P. for Cavan County) brought down fearful wrath
upon himself on Tuesday night by calling the Speaker's attention to the presence of "strangers" in the House, at a time when the Prince of Wales was present, waiting to hear Mr. Chaplin and Mr. Start, each on his thorough-bred charger, rush together in the political lists, for the purpose of deciding their relative claims to be considered judges of English horse-breeding. Mr. Biggar was supposed to be thereby wreaking his vengeance on the Reporters for not reporting his three-hours speech of last week against the Irish Peace Preservation Bill. In fact, how- ever, we believe that Mr. Biggar was but the cat's-paw of some other Member less indifferent than he to the wrath of his Parliamentary colleagues ; and certainly, if the inconvenience of the present standing order about "strangers" needed illustration, it could hardly have been better illustrated than by the summary exclusion of the Heir Apparent from a debate he was anxious to hear. However, Mr. Disraeli either felt or affected the utmost indignation with Mr. Biggar for taking a step "which brings discredit on this House," and severely re- minded him that "this is an Assembly of gentlemen,"—after which the suspension of the standing order concerning strangers was moved by Mr. Disraeli, seconded by Lord Hartington, and carried unanimously, whereupon the Prince of Wales returned to one gallery, the reporters to another, and Mr. Chaplin began a speech on the deterioration of British horses by echoing, with superfluous eloquence, Mr. Disraeli's at least suffi- ciently sharp rebuke to poor Mr. Biggar, whose crime was not so very fearful, after all. If a cat may look at a king, surely an Irish Member may call the attention of the Speaker to an Heir Apparent.
